Coast 93 or whatever they're calling themselves goes all Christmas and the 105.1 does too
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If it's All News Then it Has to be ALL NEWS 24/7.
You may buy into WBZ's programming strategy, and repeat it on the radio boards like a parrot,
but not everyone get's up at 5:00 AM and goes to bed at 9:00PM. News happens non stop, and when I want up to the minute world, national and local news, traffic, sports and weather ( reported live), I can't get it on WBZ between 8:00PM and 5:00 AM When I want it.
BTW, I know generally of how the business of commercial radio works, so there is no need to tell me that it's expensive to run a 24 hour news operation.
How cheap is it to run a 14 hour news operation?
On the weekend, there's been an obnoxious increase in paid programming, and when those infomercials come spewing out of 1030, at peak hours I might add, I can't even get a damn traffic report, or time check. Twice I had to call * 1030, not to report a tie up, but to find out how long I'll struck in one.
WBZ is News/Talk, but not all news. 1010 WINS is all news...but I like WBZ's angle better. After 8pm, I know what happened, and I just want to talk about what happened.
CBS will not blow up a perfectly profiting radio station in order to simulcast the content/spots of another station in this market - as long as that station is profiting. If you do that, you lose an additional frequency to sell, and whatever ratings you think you'll gain will not offset the revenue you lose.
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You may buy into WBZ's programming strategy, and repeat it on the radio boards like a parrot,
but not everyone get's up at 5:00 AM and goes to bed at 9:00PM. News happens non stop, and when I want up to the minute world, national and local news, traffic, sports and weather ( reported live), I can't get it on WBZ between 8:00PM and 5:00 AM When I want it.
BTW, I know generally of how the business of commercial radio works, so there is no need to tell me that it's expensive to run a 24 hour news operation.
How cheap is it to run a 14 hour news operation?
On the weekend, there's been an obnoxious increase in paid programming, and when those infomercials come spewing out of 1030, at peak hours I might add, I can't even get a damn traffic report, or time check. Twice I had to call * 1030, not to report a tie up, but to find out how long I'll struck in one.
WBZ is News/Talk, but not all news. 1010 WINS is all news...but I like WBZ's angle better. After 8pm, I know what happened, and I just want to talk about what happened.
CBS will not blow up a perfectly profiting radio station in order to simulcast the content/spots of another station in this market - as long as that station is profiting. If you do that, you lose an additional frequency to sell, and whatever ratings you think you'll gain will not offset the revenue you lose.
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[/quote]Norm Rosen said:
Thankfully when you are in the car at night and need a news fix, WINS 1010 and WCBS 880 (when they are not broadcasting Yankee games) provide it as those 50,000 watt signals "bomb in" to the Boston area for a good part of the night. Unfortunately you have to put up with NY crime news and traffic reports.
I would say another option would be satellite radio which does such things as simulcasts of the cable news channels. Of course, they run talk shows at night (O'Reilly, Maddow, Hannity,
Piers Morgan, etc.) with small news updates in between; CNN Headline News has stuff like
Nancy Grace I believe. Looking up XM (and I do have it) I find they have:
CNN, HLN, Fox News, MSNBC, BBC World Service, NPR Now, Canada 360, etc
I will say that on the night of the Jap. tsunami, as I drove home (I work nights) I went back and
forth between the likes of CNN and Fox News with live coverage on my car's sat. radio.
Piers Morgan, etc.) with small news updates in between; CNN Headline News has stuff like
Nancy Grace I believe. Looking up XM (and I do have it) I find they have:
CNN, HLN, Fox News, MSNBC, BBC World Service, NPR Now, Canada 360, etc
I will say that on the night of the Jap. tsunami, as I drove home (I work nights) I went back and
forth between the likes of CNN and Fox News with live coverage on my car's sat. radio.
Just a slight correction here: Citadel(-soon-to-be-Cumulus) does not own ABC News Radio.
ABC News Radio is an arm of ABC News, which still operates it to this day. In the ABC/Citadel deal, Citadel gained the exclusive rights to sell ABC News Radio for 10 years (I believe), and also provides the radio satellite services.
But ABC News Radio still owned by ABC News as a unit of Disney/ABC.
ABC News Radio is an arm of ABC News, which still operates it to this day. In the ABC/Citadel deal, Citadel gained the exclusive rights to sell ABC News Radio for 10 years (I believe), and also provides the radio satellite services.
But ABC News Radio still owned by ABC News as a unit of Disney/ABC.
That's just what I do, as an alternative to the yackfest on WBZ, I go straight to 1010 WINS
Thankfully when you are in the car at night and need a news fix, WINS 1010 and WCBS 880 (when they are not broadcasting Yankee games) provide it as those 50,000 watt signals "bomb in" to the Boston area for a good part of the night. Unfortunately you have to put up with NY crime news and traffic reports.
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Thankfully when you are in the car at night and need a news fix, WINS 1010 and WCBS 880 (when they are not broadcasting Yankee games) provide it as those 50,000 watt signals "bomb in" to the Boston area for a good part of the night. Unfortunately you have to put up with NY crime news and traffic reports.
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